Twitter’s X rebrand has failed. The company didn’t secure the intellectual property rights to the X brand, Reuters reported, and the site’s haphazard rollout had parts referencing “X” while others still encouraged you to “search Twitter” or “Tweet.” Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters sign was removed without a permit, prompting police …
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Australia, Canada, the UK, and more are getting Instagram creator subscriptions
Meta announced today that it will offer Instagram subscriptions to eligible creators in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and the UK in the coming weeks. Meta introduced US Instagram subscriptions in January 2022. Instagram subscriptions let creators sell exclusive posts, Live videos, Stories, reels, highlights, and …
Read More »Automated warehouses from SoftBank and Symbotic
Amazon vs. the world: retail. That’s always been true and always will. Many factors have made the company seem unstoppable. Amazon’s smart purchase and construction of global fulfillment centers is one. Last count, it operated 305 in the U.S., each 800,000 square feet. Local warehouses help the company set the …
Read More »Twitter’s logo is now “X”
Twitter now uses “X” instead of the bird logo. Musk announced the change over the weekend. Website changes are live. Musk tweeted that x.com redirects to twitter.com. Musk called this logo “interim,” so it may change again. https://t.co/bOUOek5Cvy now points to https://t.co/AYBszklpkE. Interim X logo goes live later today. — …
Read More »Musk and Zuckerberg should cage fight over whose rebrand is worse
Mark Zuckerberg’s best fortune is Elon Musk. As Musk rebrands Twitter to X, Facebook’s Meta rebrand seems less bad. Zuckerberg can lift weights now, but he needs to help Meta recover from a rough few years. After rebranding to Meta in 2021, Facebook spent $13.7 billion on VR and AR …
Read More »Mastodon users are rising again as Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X
Mastodon’s usage is rising as Twitter adopts Elon Musk’s “X” logo. According to a new post from Mastodon founder and CEO Eugen Rochko, the number of monthly active users for his Twitter alternative has steadily increased over the past couple of months to 2.1 million, “not far off from our …
Read More »Google claims Apple employee found zero-day but did not report it
According to the official bug report, Google fixed an Apple employee-discovered Chrome zero-day. The bug is unremarkable, but how it was found and reported to Google is. A Google employee said an Apple employee participating in a March Capture The Flag (CTF) hacking competition discovered the bug. However, that Apple …
Read More »Businesses can now preview GitHub Copilot Chat
GitHub launched Copilot X, a code-centric chatbot, earlier this year to expand its Copilot code completion tool. Copilot Chat is now a limited public beta for all GitHub business users on Visual Studio and VS Code. “This new evolution turns GitHub Copilot into a context-aware conversational assistant right in the …
Read More »Google’s AI newswriter is being tested
According to The New York Times, Google is testing an AI-powered newswriting tool and pitching it to publications. The tech giant pitched the AI tool to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and News Corp. “Genesis,” the tool, can process data and write news. Google claims the tool can …
Read More »Amazon’s palm-scanning payment technology is coming to all 500+ Whole Foods
Amazon One, a palm-scanning payment system, is set to expand nationwide. The retailer announced this morning that the payment tech will be in all 500+ Amazon-owned Whole Foods Market stores by year-end. Hovering a palm over a reader device activates the biometric payment system. The device then matches the customer’s …
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